Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly, plainclothesmen burst through the front door and windows, crying "Nobody move!" They swept up cards, chips and cash as evidence, herded together 20 prisoners, including a Mexican general, a wealthy Texan and several of the brightest lights of capital society. When the courts opened next day, the 20 were charged with gambling and released on bail (possible sentence: three months to a year in jail...
...some probing questions. Why had "motor cars" been bought for Irving's personal use? Why, in one 14-month period, had Roy E. Livingston, union treasurer, been paid $4,400 and Irving $3,800 for "overtime"? Why, in approximately the same period, had $16,762 been paid to "cash" without accounting? Why had the union's bank balance dropped by $37,000 in five months...
...plays Joe Palooka in the movies, was hauled off to court in Worcester, Mass. and adjudged the father of a pair of six-year-old ideal American twins belonging to a movie cashier named Florence Hep-penstall. "I scarcely knew the girl," said Joe, who nonetheless made a prompt cash settlement...
...same time, Cissy's seven heirs were looking for a chance to convert their legacies into cash. Times-Herald Editor Frank C. Waldrop, together with two co-executors of Cissy's estate, agreed to sell the trust stock to McCormick for a reported $9,500,000-if McCormick would pay another $4,500,000 for the Times-Herald as well. On top of the $640,000 each of the seven faithful would get from the Times-Herald sale, Waldrop drove a still shrewder bargain. He got the colonel to agree to give each of them ten shares (worth...
...union's president, has run the show. One of his shrewdest ideas: the Young Friends of Summer Opera, whose teen-age members serve as money raisers and ushers, and so spend free nights at the opera. Hild expects the Young Friends to grow up into old friends -and cash customers-of the opera...